Match-lighting attachment.



No. 764,052- PATENTED JULY 5, 19044 G. G. HARRISON! MATCH LIGHTING ATTAGHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED PEB.16,1904.

NO MODEL.

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PATENT EEicE.

MATCH-LIGHTING ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 764,052, dated July 5, 1904.

Application filed February 16, 1904. Serial No- 193,875. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that l, GEORGE C. HARRISON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Elyria, in the county of Lorain and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Match-Lighting Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention comprises a simple attaching device adapted for application in its practical embodiment to lamps, burner-stoves, or the like.

The invention is particularly designed to provide a convenient medium for scratching matches preparatory to lighting, aholder also forming a part of the device, as a receptacle within which the burned matches maybe disposed.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings.

While the essential and characteristic features of the invention are susceptible of modification, still the preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the invention applied. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the attachment alone. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view through the attachment.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

Specifically describing the parts of the invention, the attachment consists of three essential 1nembersnamely, an attaching memher 1, a scratching-block 2, and a supportingtray 3.

The invention is shown applied to an ordinary form of hydrocarbon-lamp, in which type of lamp the burner is usually screwed in position. The attaching-collar is utilized to support the attachment, being provided with a threaded extension 4, adapted to be screwed into the screw-opening receiving the screw portion of the burner. The collar 1 is also internally threaded, so as to receive the screw readily seen.

portion of the burner, which, as above mentioned, is usually screwed into the neck of the lamp. The collar 1 thus virtually forms a connection between the burner and the lamp or stove, as the case may be, and the scratching-block or abrasive device 2 is supported by the collar 1, arms 5 being projected laterally from the scratching-block 2 and pivotally connected with the collar 1. The arms 5 may be removably attached to the scratchingblock 2, if desired, corresponding ends of the said arms being inturned and received within openings in the collar 1. About intermediate the arms 5, which are disposed in spaced relation and projected from the scratchingblock 2, is a supporting member 6, provided with an angular extension 7. The supporting member 6 is preferably threaded into the scratching-block 2, and the extension 7 of this member is adapted to engage an adjacent portion of the lamp to hold the attachment in its normal position, as shown in Fig. 1. The scratching-block 2 is pivotally-supported by the collar 1, so asto be adapted for disposal upon either side of the burner, as found most convenient and according, in certain instances, to the construction of the burner. The extension 7 is adapted to be reversed in relative position by a screwing movement of the sup porting member 6 in a manner which will be Dependent from the scratching-block 2 is a tray 8, which is supported, preferably, by a bail 8, the side arms of the bail being pivoted to the ends of the scratching-block. The tray is thus adapted to be swung into reverse positions dependent upon the position of the scratching block upon either side of the burner. The scratchingblock,which is preferably of square formation in cross-section, is provided upon its outer faces with abrasive surfaces, so as to facilitate the scratching of a match thereupon. Either of the abrasive faces of the scratching-block may be disposed uppermost by the pivotal movement of the block relative to the burner.

The attachment is comparatively simple in structure, and it will be noted that a match may be readily lighted by application to the scratching-block 2, and the tray 3 is very conveniently located to receive the burned stubs.

The manner of attaching the device and the detail construction thereof may be modified in accordance with the broad spirit of the invention. v I

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is" 1. In a match-lighting attachment, thecOmbination of an attaching member, a scratching-block projected from said attaching memher, and a tray or holder pendent from the said scratching-block. I

2. In a1natchlighting attachment, the combination of an attaching member, an abrasive device pivotally supported by the attaching member, and a tray pivoted to the abrasive device.

3. In a match-lighting attachment, the combination of an attaching member adapted to be secured to lamps, an abrasive device projected from the attaching member, and a separate pivotally-Supportcd tray carried by the abrasive device.

I. In a match-lightin g attachment, the combination of an attaching member, a scratching-blocl pivoted to the attaching member, a supporting member projected from the scratching-block, and a swinging tray carried by the scratching-block,

In a mz ttch-lighting attachment, the combination of an attaching member, a scratching-bloclgarms projected from the scratchingblock and pivotally connected to the attaching member, a bail carried by the scratchingblock, and a tray pivotally supported by the bail.

6. In a 111atch-lighting attachment, the combination of an attaching member, a scratching-block, spaced arms projected from the scratching-block and pivoted to the attaching member, a supportingmember projected from the attachingblock intermediate the spaced. arms aforesaid, a tray pivotally supported by the scratching-block.

'7. In a match-lighting attachment, the combination of an attaching member, a scratching-block, spaced arms projected from the scratching-block and pivotally connected to opposite sides of the attaching member, a reversible supporting member projected from the scratching-block at a point between the supporting-arms thereof, and a reversible tray dependent'from the scratching-block.

In testimony whereof I afIiX my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

GEORGE O. HARRISON.

\Vitnesses:

A. IV. CINNIGER, R. E. HoLooMB. 

